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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ingra Tor Cist Alternative Name: Dixon 70; Butler (V3 45.16); Grinsell Walkhampton 9Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Sampford Spiney
Map Ref: SX5587272083
Latitude: 50.530722N Longitude: 4.034931W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Cairn with cist in Devon
This site, Inga Tor Cist, is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website as part of their "Sharpitor Area Stone Rows and Cists Walk". Also see their page for the Sharpitor area Stone Rows and Cists.
Further information on this cairn with cist can also be found on the Pastscape website, see Monument Number 440170, which tells us this site is "an isolated Bronze Age cairn with a central cist .. it is now surrounded by stone pits. All four sides of the cist are present but are now much obscured by vegetation .. the rectangular capstone was fractured by workmen in 1910. Scheduled." and add that this is "a cairn situated at 338 metres OD on a shelf of a north facing slope. It is circular, 6.9m in diameter and 0.7m high, with no evidence of retaining stones ... located (600 metres) north-east of Routrundle."
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor HER number MDV4983 (Cairn in the parish of Walkhampton) adds that this cist now consists of only one visible stone (note: more stones can be seen on the PDW photograph) and dates the cairn to the Bronze Age (2200 BC to 701 BC). Their information adds this cairn with cist is "east of Ingra Tor. About 30m from the leat which serves Routrundle farm, upstream about 61m. The mound is a low cairn, with no visible retaining circle. The cairn still rises above the top of the stones of the kistvaen. The coverstone has been displaced, but still covers about half of the cist, cist measures 1.1m x 0.75m (max); the side stones and the south end stone both appear to have been displaced when the cairn was broken into."
The cairn is scheduled as Historic England List ID 1019578 (Cairn and cist 600m north east of Routrundle).
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